The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 25

Having abandoned medicine and theology he got called to the Bar, practised for a while with distinct success, and coquetted with a notion of codifying the laws of the realm.

Who acts: notion · What happens: have, abandon, call, practise, coquet, codify · To what, where: abandoned medicine, degree, Bar, laws · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 called	csubj
2	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 medicine	amod
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 theology	cc
5	theology	theology	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 medicine	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Bar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bar	det
11	Bar	Bar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 practised	punct
13	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 called	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 while	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 while	det
16	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practised	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 success	case
18	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 success	amod
19	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practised	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coquetted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 coquetted	cc
22	coquetted	coquet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 called	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 notion	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 notion	det
25	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coquetted	obl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 codifying	mark
27	codifying	codify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 notion	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 laws	det
29	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 codifying	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 realm	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 realm	det
32	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laws	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		abandoned medicine and theology				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
2	abandon	participle						vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme
3	call speech: assert	past · passive		degree	the Bar			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to bar=Recipient
4	practise	participle				while	with distinct success	tree rules
5	coquet	participle					with a notion	tree rules
6	codify	gerund	a notion not said here	the laws of the realm				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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